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Seeds of change: The impact of Ethiopia's direct seed marketing approach on smallholders' seed purchases and productivity

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen, Gashaw T. Abate, Seid Yimam, Rui Benfica, David J. Spielman, Frank Place   +5 more
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Lost in aggregation? On the importance of local food price data for food poverty estimates

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores within‐country variations in food price dynamics and food poverty estimates by employing local market price data and national consumer price index (CPI) data. Our results show that national CPI data may be useful for approximating national trends but they fail to detect and identify spatial variations in local trends, which
Stephan Dietrich, Valerio Giuffrida, Bruno Martorano, Georg Schmerzeck, Marco Tiberti   +4 more
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Considerações acerca do processo de pesquisa sobre pensamento mitológico em comunidades negras rurais

Cadernos de Campo, 2012
This article emerges from our Social Science Master Thesis Project, that deals of the self-identification of a specific rural black community while “quilombola”, emphasizing their collective memory, their slave acestry and their territory as fundamental ...
Leandro Haerter
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Redemptive Organizations and the Politics of Hope [PDF]

, 1989
The politics of hope of this article is rooted in the local leadership of low income, repressed communities. One central element of the politics of hope is redemptive organizations.
Couto, Richard A.
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“Will you be there for me?” Social support from family and friends during cold case sexual assault prosecutions

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract If sexual assault survivors report the assault to the criminal legal system, they often need informal support from family and friends throughout the long and frequently retraumatizing process of investigation and prosecution. This study is part of a long‐term community‐based participatory action research project in a predominately Black ...
Rebecca Campbell, Rachael Goodman‐Williams, Katie Gregory, McKenzie Javorka, Jasmine Engleton   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

SCHOOL EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND TEENS QUILOMBOLA REMAINING IN RURAL SCHOOL: SAME REFECTIONS

Travessias, 2011
The black Brazilian population long remained invisible to laws and guidelines of the right to education. This situation changes after a few national and international movements for equality of access to school space and the appreciation of diversity in ...
Cláucia Honnef, Marco Antônio Verardi Fialho   +1 more
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Conflating Blackness and Rurality: Urban Politics and Social Control of Africans in Guangzhou, China

Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia, 2020
In April, 2020, amid widespread fear of a second wave of infections of the novel coronavirus in China, local authorities in Guangzhou cracked down on the city's black population, resulting in mass evictions of Africans.
Guangzhi Huang
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Epidemiology of Cancer‐Associated Venous Thromboembolism Across the United States

American Journal of Hematology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Prior epidemiological studies on cancer‐associated venous thromboembolism (VTE) were limited by homogenous patient populations. We leverage Cosmos, a collaborative dataset of Epic electronic health record systems, to conduct an updated evaluation of cancer‐associated VTE in the United States (US).
Barbara D. Lam, Justine Ryu, Omid Jafari, Rock Bum Kim, Shengling Ma, Mrinal Ranjan, Jun Y. Jiang, Ang Li   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Land Rights and Socio-Economic Development of Afro-Brazilian Communities [PDF]

, 2010
Law students and recent graduates who spent the Spring 2010 semester studying the land rights of Afro-Brazilian communities have submitted their final report to community leaders and Brazilian government officials, institutions, and non-government ...
Browne, Noah, Dana, Anne, Shea, Katherine   +2 more
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A Systematic Review of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Epigenetic Age Acceleration in Later Adult Life Measured With Second and Third‐Generation Epigenetic Clocks

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examined the relationship between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and epigenetic age acceleration (EAA) in adulthood as measured by second and third generation epigenetic clocks by performing a systematic review of the literature. The electronic databases MEDLINE and EMBASE were searched on 17 July 2023.
Matthew Green, Laura Horsfall, Azam Saied   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source